Returning to Ancient Times with the Top Scholar System

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[Upcoming Novel: Le An. Please add it to your favorites~ The blurb is at the very end.]

Xia Zhixu, once the top liberal arts student in City A and now an outstanding graduate of B University, was knocked unconscious by a chandelier falling from the ceiling on the day she signed her job offer. While unconscious, she was bound to a "Top Scholar System" and sent to a dynasty that had no record in history.

The System's ultimate task was to pass the imperial examinations and become the top scholar. But there was a problem: women in this dynasty were barred from taking the exams, and Xia Zhixu had been a woman before she transmigrated, and was still one afterward.

After much negotiation with the System, she was allowed to find someone to take the exams in her place. But only spouses could be bound together, so Xia Zhixu first had to get married, and find someone with the potential to become the top scholar.

She took a liking to a poor, handsome young scholar from the neighboring village. Xia Zhixu, who had been single for twenty-two years in her previous life, fell for him. Even if failing the task meant being erased, she could at least date a sweet young man before she died. Besides, he looked like he was quite the scholar.

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Shen Qingchuan took just one night to decide whether to marry into the Xia family.

He had to observe three years of mourning for his father, so he had missed the last two provincial examinations. The next one was six months away, and there was no chance his uncle would continue supporting his studies. If he wanted to keep studying, marrying into the Xia family was his only option.

Although he thought the Xia family girl was lazy, gluttonous, and vulgar, he would treat her with mutual respect in the future.

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Later, Shen Qingchuan passed the imperial examinations and became the top scholar. He also reunited with his birth father, the Prince Rui who doted on by the current emperor, despite spending his days playing with cats and walking dogs.

Everyone thought marrying into the Xia family must have been a humiliation for him, and dared not mention it in front of him. Little did they know that the Xia family's young lady who had married into his family had now become the most revered person in the entire Prince Rui's manor.

Reader's Notes:

1. The heroine will build a career, but she won't make it big.

2. Before the hero becomes powerful, the second female lead will protect the heroine.

3. There is a System, but it doesn't play a major role, and the heroine doesn't have much of a golden finger.

4. The hero learns little tricks for romance from storybooks.

5. Updates every day!!!!

!!! Upcoming Novel: Le An

Princess Le An, Su Yuexin, was the carefree little princess of the Great Qi dynasty, cherished as she grew up by the emperor and the crown prince. The two most noble men in the realm both said that only the finest young man in the world would be worthy of their Yuexin.

Watching her older sister choose a husband, the fifteen-year-old Princess Le An took the hand of the guard beside her and said she wanted to marry him.

Princess Le An could only marry the very best, and if he wasn't the best, they would make him so. Holding to this belief, the emperor and crown prince arranged for Xiao Muan to spend his days alongside the crown prince, heir to the throne, learning to wield a brush and shape the realm, and to take up a spear and bring peace to the land.

From being a guard by the princess's side to becoming the commander of the Imperial Guard, Xiao Muan rose steadily through the ranks, thanks to the trust of the emperor and crown prince.

One day, the crown prince's old illness struck again. The emperor was devastated to lose his son, and, knowing his own days were numbered, entrusted the young emperor to Xiao Muan on his deathbed. He made Princess Le An's husband, Xiao Muan, regent, to assist the young emperor and govern the officials.

The heroine's perspective:

I traded the most lavish dowry for the most powerful betrothal gifts.

But at first, I simply loved him.

I watched him go from being my guard to guarding the entire palace, then the whole dynasty.

But he always had people call him Princess Le An's husband.

The hero's perspective:

The new emperor was young, and they all urged me to take the throne for myself.

But the late emperor and crown prince trusted me to keep their precious pearl safe, never once suspecting me. The princess entrusted the young emperor and the new dynasty to me. How could I betray them?

As the new emperor grew up, they all urged me to guard against the old saying that a rabbit is killed once the hounds have done their work.

But the new emperor carried the late emperor's blood, and shared the same mother as the late crown prince and the princess. I believe he is not someone who repays loyalty with ingratitude.

Theme: Study hard and change your own destiny and the destinies of others.